I don’t think that negates the validity of the critique.
Agreed—I didn’t mean to imply it was.
Okay, but I still don’t know what the view says about x-risk reduction (the example in my previous comment)?
By “the view”, do you mean the consequentialist person-affecting view you argued against, or one of the non-consequentialist person-affecting views I alluded to?
If the former, I have no idea.
If the latter, I guess it depends on the precise view. On the deontological view I find pretty plausible we have, roughly speaking, a duty to humanity, and that’d mean actions that reduce x-risk are good (and vice versa). (I think there are also other deontological reasons to reduce x-risk, but that’s the main one.) I guess I don’t see any way that changes depending on what the default is? I’ll stop here since I’m not sure this is even what you were asking about …
Oh, to be clear, my response to RedStateBlueState’s comment was considering a new still-consequentialist view, that wouldn’t take trade 3. None of the arguments in this post are meant to apply to e.g. deontological views. I’ve clarified this in my original response.
Agreed—I didn’t mean to imply it was.
By “the view”, do you mean the consequentialist person-affecting view you argued against, or one of the non-consequentialist person-affecting views I alluded to?
If the former, I have no idea.
If the latter, I guess it depends on the precise view. On the deontological view I find pretty plausible we have, roughly speaking, a duty to humanity, and that’d mean actions that reduce x-risk are good (and vice versa). (I think there are also other deontological reasons to reduce x-risk, but that’s the main one.) I guess I don’t see any way that changes depending on what the default is? I’ll stop here since I’m not sure this is even what you were asking about …
Oh, to be clear, my response to RedStateBlueState’s comment was considering a new still-consequentialist view, that wouldn’t take trade 3. None of the arguments in this post are meant to apply to e.g. deontological views. I’ve clarified this in my original response.